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Vilmantas Giedraitis

Vilmantas Giedraitis

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
21293
World Ranking
12915
National Ranking
191

Overview

Vilmantas Giedraitis is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has a focus on the fields of Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans various subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The primary topics covered in their work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention, Birth, Development, and Health, and Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies.

They have contributed to multiple recent publications, notable ones among these are:

  • New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • Sex-dimorphic genetic effects and novel loci for fasting glucose and insulin variability, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Genome-wide analysis in over 1 million individuals of European ancestry yields improved polygenic risk scores for blood pressure traits, 2024, Nature Genetics

Their frequent co-authors include Martin Ingelsson, Johan Ärnlöv, Céline Bellenguez, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, and Lars Lind. Publication venues where their research commonly appears include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, UNC Libraries, and BMC Geriatrics.

Best Publications

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.

    Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsud

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

    S Shah;A Henry;C Roselli;H Lin

  • Cloning and mutation analysis of the human IL-18 promoter: a possible role of polymorphisms in expression regulation.

    Vilmantas Giedraitis;Bing He;Wen-Xin Huang;Jan Hillert

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk

    Helen R Warren;Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Claudia P Cabrera;He Gao

  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals

    Lasse Folkersen;Stefan Gustafsson;Qin Wang;Qin Wang;Daniel Hvidberg Hansen

  • Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders.

    S Ligthart;A Vaez;U Võsa;M G Stathopoulou

  • Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

    Valérie Turcot;Yingchang Lu;Yingchang Lu;Heather M Highland;Heather M Highland;Claudia Schurmann

  • η-Secretase processing of APP inhibits neuronal activity in the hippocampus

    Michael Willem;Sabina Tahirovic;Marc Aurel Busche;Marc Aurel Busche;Saak V. Ovsepian

  • Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

    Anubha Mahajan;Jennifer Wessel;Sara M. Willems;Wei Zhao

  • Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in peripheral blood is associated with shorter survival and higher risk of cancer

    Lars A Forsberg;Chiara Rasi;Niklas Malmqvist;Hanna Davies

  • Target genes, variants, tissues and transcriptional pathways influencing human serum urate levels

    Adrienne Tin;Jonathan Marten;Victoria L. Halperin Kuhns;Yong Li

  • Mapping of 79 loci for 83 plasma protein biomarkers in cardiovascular disease.

    Lasse Westergaard Folkersen;Eric Fauman;Maria Sabater-Lleal;Rona J. Strawbridge

  • Trans-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

    Mahajan A;Spracklen Cn;Zhang W;Ng Mc

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

    Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsu

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford
Lars Lind
Lars Lind Uppsala University
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Martin Ingelsson
Martin Ingelsson Uppsala University
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Weihua Zhang
Weihua Zhang Imperial College London

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